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According to the United Nations, 2024 was the deadliest year for humanitarian workers recorded in recent history. From Gaza to Sudan, Ukraine to Myanmar, humanitarian and healthcare workers are targeted in direct violation of international law. This episode features Medical Ethics Committee Chair, Dr Andy Green, and International Committee Chair, Dr Kitty Mohan.  They discuss how working...

Working in healthcare in remote and rural areas is often sold to doctors as a chance to live and practise in beautiful surroundings with plenty of opportunity for outdoor activities. But it’s about much more than that.  This episode of The Doctor podcast, brought to you by the British Medical Association, builds on the feature Special job, special people – now they need specialty status by Je...

A medical environment can be overwhelming for any patient, but to those who are neurodivergent, the sensory challenges involved can be enough to put them off obtaining the healthcare they need. In recognition of the barriers to care faced by these patients, some doctors are attempting to change the way medical treatment in their workplaces are delivered in an effort to become more inclusive and ef...

When emergency medicine consultant Jonny Acheson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease nine years ago, it came as a huge shock. As for many NHS professionals living with the condition, a stressful job meant that he hadn’t recognised in himself symptoms he’d seen in patients with Parkinson’s. In this episode Dr Acheson is joined by retired old-age psychiatrist Richard Prettyman to discuss what it’...

“How can you treat a person and ignore the climate?”    Retired GPs Dr Diana Warner and Dr Sarah Benn see their climate activism as inextricable from their duty as doctors to safeguard human life.    Both have been convicted and imprisoned for their climate activism. Their convictions led to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service suspending them from the medical register.&n...

Throughout its history the NHS has depended on overseas staff, including international medical graduates (IMG doctors), who come from all over the world to care for patients. In this episode, Dr Somto Ogbuagu, Dr Lisa Rampersad, and Dr Marvee Zakaria discuss their experiences, insights, and their advice for other IMGs - from the difficulties of being far from family during the Covid-19 p...

Art is one of the many tools that doctors can use to help heal and treat patients. Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Sabina Dosani has experienced this, on both sides of the stethoscope. Art psychotherapist and clinical research fellow Megan Tjasink has been studying how art therapy can help healthcare professionals suffering with burnout, with promising findings. They bring together...

The ways that patients and doctors can feel silenced or dismissed in medicine – and how we can change this – is the focus of Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan’s book Unheard: the medical practice of silencing .  'I'm a doctor and I don't always listen well,' Dr Dhairyawan says. 'I really want to and I want to be a good listener, but I don't always do so. I really wanted to understand what made it hard f...

Welcome to The Doctor podcast , where you will hear the voices of doctors, for doctors, brought to you by the British Medical Association.    Each month, we bring you conversations inspired by stories featured in  The Doctor  magazine, written by our multiple award-winning team. We bring you voices from the medical profession and discuss the issues that matter to doctors and me...